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As part of our efforts to help developers jumpstart their development of Windows Phone applications, Yesterday (5/4/2010) we released a refresh of the Windows Phone Training Kit on Channel 9 to meet the changes in the Windows Phone April CTP tools (Visual...
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Multitouch physics engine for Surface Here is a little video showing off some of the cool work my colleague Dave Brown has been doing 'after hours' with Microsoft Surface. His application is a drop in replacement for the ScatterView WPF control...
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An interesting article in the International Herald Tribune on the ambition of Taiwan to capture 7% of the $18 billion robotics market place. I find this very exciting. I've worked with a few Taiwanese companies over the years. Their 'can do'...
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Yes! The XNA Games Studio 3.0 CTP is available and it enables game development for the Zune platform. Canadian colleague Jean-Luc David ported this game pretty easily. Jean-Luc's learning's in doing are: · Project needed to be converted from...
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This week I attended the Architect Insight Conference in the UK. The conference is for leading software architects to share the latest implementation strategies. I was exhibiting my Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio(MSRDS) work accompanied by Lib-b...
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Yes!!! Robochamps.com is now live. The first of the RoboChamp challenges has been released along with the availability of the web site. The AMAZED challenge places you in control of a CoroBot from CoroWare. The maze is not just a normal maze - it is filled...
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Another great demonstration from Microsoft Research - the Worldwide Telescope! Again, a video from the new Microsoft.com video portal.
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A quick video of the new Windows Mobile 6.1 Cool Stuff!
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Over the last three months we’ve invited IT professionals to submit their designs for computer systems that demonstrate creativity as well as tackling real social, human interest problems experienced by charities large and small: such as contributing...
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I promised some chaps from Manchester a pointer to the Stinger CE Robotics Kit. So here it is:
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I'm off to Leicester University's 50th anniversary Science Day celebration this weekend - Saturday 8th. I'll be showing off a number of fun things including something I'm working on at the moment - robotic missile launcher targeting :...
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I'm playing with my robots again. This time I want voice control. I discovered that my Bluetooth headset doesn't deliver the quality required by the Windows Vista Speech Recognition function, so I was looking for another headset to use. I can...
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Recently I had the opportunity to write an article for a UK magazine on building a simple PVR using Windows XP Embedded. Nothing hugely special there until I tell you I was running the whole system off a USB memory stick! Yes that's right, the XPe...
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The ILOVEROBOTS competition closed on the 8th Feb. Apologies for the delay in letting you know the winners - its been one of those months! We had a good showing of robots which is encouraging. But we had only a few blueprints. Well there you go. I expected...
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Hey take a look at my latest toy. The MSN USB Missile Launcher from Dream Cheeky. This is not only a super fun USB powered missile launcher but it also includes a USB web cam installed on top. Perfect for playing with BrainTech's Volt-IQ Visual Intelligence...